Arrogance, hubris, and vanity — a short, unfiltered history of Irish Water

Saying the troika made them do it just won’t wash — this may yet become Kenny’s Waterloo, writes Michael Clifford

AS THEY marched through the wind and the rain on Saturday, water was on everybody’s lips, but these protests are about much more.

The advent of water charges, through the vehicle of Irish Water, now represents a bonfire of the current government’s vanities. All the latent anger, all the roads not taken, all the missed opportunities, not to mention the impunity enjoyed by some, have arrived on the doors of government in the form of resistance to water charges.